AUSTRALIA
Daily Telegraph
Disabled boy wanted to kill sex predator, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse told
SALLY BROOKS THE ADVERTISER MARCH 17, 2014
THE mother of an intellectually disabled youth allegedly sexually abused by paedophile bus driver Brian Perkins two decades ago is still searching for answers from the Catholic Church, an inquiry has heard.
After submitting a list of 35 questions to Archbishop Philip Wilson, Helen Gitsham told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on Monday that she is still waiting for them to be answered.
The inquiry is probing the handling of claims of child sexual abuse at St Ann’s Special School at Marion between 1985 and 1991.
In her opening address, counsel assisting the commission Sophie David said Perkins was employed by the school as a bus driver. “He also volunteered in the woodwork class and provided respite care to parents on weekends,” Ms David said.
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